This week true believers, Fanboys, Fangirls, and respected aliens around the galaxy, The Defender of the EU; Mark Hurliman, and your EU Guru; Nathan P. Butler discuss Aaron Allston’s latest installment of the X-Wing series: Mercy Kill. Strap in and tighten the crash webbing, Star Wars Beyond the Films is setting off on a trip to a galaxy far, far away!

Mark’s new studio is coming along, and Nathan may have to reorganize his shelving situation sooner than he’d first thought.

This week’s episode starts right off focusing on the much anticipated return of the X-Wing series. The hosts explore the marketing of this novel, how they felt the book was marketed, and how it may have been put to better use being marketed as a next generation Wraith Squadron novel instead of as an X-wing novel.The hosts keep this episode on the light side in terms of spoilers, hoping you’ll read it and enjoy the story as much as they have.

They discuss character diversity, a plethora of Wraiths, character growth opportunities; hit, and missed, and more!

Once again, your dynamic duo cover entirely too much X-Wing goodness in their ONE hour, but don’t worry, give it ago; you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you might even get a little education on the EU while you’re at it. But no matter how you slice it and dice it, you’ll be having another adventure Beyond the Films. So once again, sit back, hang on, enjoy the show and may the Force be with you!